Lois had not stayed at the scene, not because she wanted to run away, but because she wanted Xiu to hurry up and run.
As institutions for training artificers, universities could not, and did not want to, stop violent confrontations between students. Even artificers who focused on academic paths still had to venture through the Void Realm to condense Spell Power and obtain resources, and if they wanted to improve their combat skills, the best method was still competitive clashes in reality that were [limited to certain areas] and [low intensity (nonlethal)]. Universities were naturally the most suitable stage.
Different universities had different school rules. The loosest was, for example, Zero Ripple University—as long as no one died, there were no point deductions and no punishments. As a result, the campus looked as though it had been carved up by several large clubs, like a jungle where the weak were prey to the strong, and the Weakling became the strong's reward. If you did not want to be bullied, you had to dominate Zero Ripple and stand at the top.
Zero Ripple University had an awful reputation and sat near the bottom of the Gala City University Alliance. Almost only commoners attended that university. But among the high-level Adventurers of the Abyss sequence, artificers from Zero Ripple made up a full third, and according to statistics, the number of Saint Domain Artificers born from Zero Ripple University in the past century was actually second only to Truth University—yet still, only commoners with no other choice and hot-blooded idiots would enter that university.
Truth University's school rules were the strictest. All battles had to be applied for with a professor present as observer. No excuses were accepted; violators had credits deducted, and repeat offenders were expelled outright. However, Truth University had